TY - BOOK AU - Picoult,Jodi TI - Small great things T2 - Thorndike Press large print basic SN - 9781410463746 (hardback) PY - 2016/// CY - Waterville, Maine PB - Thorndike Press KW - African American nurses KW - Fiction KW - Criminal defense lawyers KW - Trials (Murder) KW - Race relations KW - White supremacy movements KW - United States KW - Racism KW - Large type books KW - Legal fiction (Literature) KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 723-724) N2 - A woman and her husband admitted to a hospital to have a baby requests that their nurse be reassigned -- they are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is black, to touch their baby. The hospital complies, but the baby later goes into cardiac distress when Ruth is on duty. She hesitates before rushing in to perform CPR. When her indecision ends in tragedy, Ruth finds herself on trial, represented by a white public defender who warns against bringing race into a courtroom. As the two come to develop a truer understanding of each other's lives, they begin to doubt the beliefs they each hold most dear ER -